Yup.

If you're ever passing through Perth Ontario on Hwy 7, pull into the Minuteman for any kind of combo with fries. They're the last surviving independent fast-food joint on the whole sad strip there, which now boasts (east to west) McDonalds, (right across from Minuteman, boo) KFC, Pizza Hut, Robin's, Tim Horton's, Wendy's. This in a town on 6,000. Gone in the past few years: the other indies, Leaches, Frank's and KC's.

The Minuteman's great, though, my friend Jody left her purse there many years ago, wrote a song about it, ("Purse In Perth", duhhh) and later came back to the joint and made a video of the song with her band The Toasted Westerns. Needless to say there's a framed faded newspaper clipping on the wall of this event.

Good Lord, there's a robin (the bird type) jumping up and flinging itself against the basement window...I guess I should go shoo it away.

Willie-O